LINQ to SQL, LINQ to Amazon, LINQ to Coffee Machine ...

posted by  techgeek (12)  11 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

At "Meet the LINQ Team" session at TechEd, I got a few questions about LINQ to SQL and if it was possible to build a similar implementation. The answer is - absolutely you can. Take the soon-to-be released expression tree API documents, a few samples on the net and start cooking. What can you build a LINQ provider for? Any source of data worth querying. Who knows, it could be a smart fridge which tells you about the contents and perhaps down the road - your coffee machine.

 The complexity of a provider depends on:1. What set of query operators you choose to implement; and